🇵🇹Portuguese Source WordCode: PT

mulher-trabalhadora

Pronunciation / Transliteration: muˈʎɛʁ tɾɐbaʎaˈdoɾɐ

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Workingwoman/ˈwɜːrkɪŋˌwʊmən/
nounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #8500 frequency
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🇵🇹 Example Sentence in Portuguese:

"A mulher-trabalhadora desempenha um papel fundamental na sociedade contemporânea."

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2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A woman who earns a living through a job or profession, especially one engaged in manual or industrial labor.

    "The conference highlighted the vital economic contributions made by the modern workingwoman."
  2. 2

    A female worker of the working class.

    "Historically, the rights of the workingwoman were championed during early labor movement rallies."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the combination of 'working' (from Old English wyrcan, meaning to perform work or labor) and 'woman' (from Old English wīfmann, meaning female human). The compound term emerged in the 19th century alongside the Industrial Revolution to describe females actively engaged in paid employment outside the domestic sphere.

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